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1 /* Definitions for BFD wrappers used by GDB.
3 Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 #ifndef GDB_BFD_H
21 #define GDB_BFD_H
23 #include "registry.h"
25 DECLARE_REGISTRY (bfd);
27 /* If supplied a path starting with this sequence, gdb_bfd_open will
28 open BFDs using target fileio operations. */
30 #define TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX "target:"
32 /* Returns nonzero if NAME starts with TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX, zero
33 otherwise. */
35 int is_target_filename (const char *name);
37 /* Returns nonzero if the filename associated with ABFD starts with
38 TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX, zero otherwise. */
40 int gdb_bfd_has_target_filename (struct bfd *abfd);
42 /* Open a read-only (FOPEN_RB) BFD given arguments like bfd_fopen.
43 If NAME starts with TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX then the BFD will be
44 opened using target fileio operations if necessary. Returns NULL
45 on error. On success, returns a new reference to the BFD, which
46 must be freed with gdb_bfd_unref. BFDs returned by this call are
47 shared among all callers opening the same file. If FD is not -1,
48 then after this call it is owned by BFD. If the BFD was not
49 accessed using target fileio operations then the filename
50 associated with the BFD and accessible with bfd_get_filename will
51 not be exactly NAME but rather NAME with TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX
52 stripped. */
54 struct bfd *gdb_bfd_open (const char *name, const char *target, int fd);
56 /* Increment the reference count of ABFD. It is fine for ABFD to be
57 NULL; in this case the function does nothing. */
59 void gdb_bfd_ref (struct bfd *abfd);
61 /* Decrement the reference count of ABFD. If this is the last
62 reference, ABFD will be freed. If ABFD is NULL, this function does
63 nothing. */
65 void gdb_bfd_unref (struct bfd *abfd);
67 /* Mark the CHILD BFD as being a member of PARENT. Also, increment
68 the reference count of CHILD. Calling this function ensures that
69 as along as CHILD remains alive, PARENT will as well. Both CHILD
70 and PARENT must be non-NULL. This can be called more than once
71 with the same arguments; but it is not allowed to call it for a
72 single CHILD with different values for PARENT. */
74 void gdb_bfd_mark_parent (bfd *child, bfd *parent);
76 /* Mark INCLUDEE as being included by INCLUDER.
77 This is used to associate the life time of INCLUDEE with INCLUDER.
78 For example, with Fission, one file can refer to debug info in another
79 file, and internal tables we build for the main file (INCLUDER) may refer
80 to data contained in INCLUDEE. Therefore we want to keep INCLUDEE around
81 at least as long as INCLUDER exists.
83 Note that this is different than gdb_bfd_mark_parent because in our case
84 lifetime tracking is based on the "parent" whereas in gdb_bfd_mark_parent
85 lifetime tracking is based on the "child". Plus in our case INCLUDEE could
86 have multiple different "parents". */
88 void gdb_bfd_record_inclusion (bfd *includer, bfd *includee);
90 /* Try to read or map the contents of the section SECT. If
91 successful, the section data is returned and *SIZE is set to the
92 size of the section data; this may not be the same as the size
93 according to bfd_get_section_size if the section was compressed.
94 The returned section data is associated with the BFD and will be
95 destroyed when the BFD is destroyed. There is no other way to free
96 it; for temporary uses of section data, see
97 bfd_malloc_and_get_section. SECT may not have relocations. This
98 function will throw on error. */
100 const gdb_byte *gdb_bfd_map_section (asection *section, bfd_size_type *size);
102 /* Compute the CRC for ABFD. The CRC is used to find and verify
103 separate debug files. When successful, this fills in *CRC_OUT and
104 returns 1. Otherwise, this issues a warning and returns 0. */
106 int gdb_bfd_crc (struct bfd *abfd, unsigned long *crc_out);
110 /* A wrapper for bfd_fopen that initializes the gdb-specific reference
111 count. */
113 bfd *gdb_bfd_fopen (const char *, const char *, const char *, int);
115 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr that initializes the gdb-specific reference
116 count. */
118 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr (const char *, const char *);
120 /* A wrapper for bfd_openw that initializes the gdb-specific reference
121 count. */
123 bfd *gdb_bfd_openw (const char *, const char *);
125 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_iovec that initializes the gdb-specific
126 reference count. */
128 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_iovec (const char *filename, const char *target,
129 void *(*open_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
130 void *open_closure),
131 void *open_closure,
132 file_ptr (*pread_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
133 void *stream,
134 void *buf,
135 file_ptr nbytes,
136 file_ptr offset),
137 int (*close_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
138 void *stream),
139 int (*stat_func) (struct bfd *abfd,
140 void *stream,
141 struct stat *sb));
143 /* A wrapper for bfd_openr_next_archived_file that initializes the
144 gdb-specific reference count. */
146 bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file (bfd *archive, bfd *previous);
148 /* A wrapper for bfd_fdopenr that initializes the gdb-specific
149 reference count. */
151 bfd *gdb_bfd_fdopenr (const char *filename, const char *target, int fd);
155 /* Return the index of the BFD section SECTION. Ordinarily this is
156 just the section's index, but for some special sections, like
157 bfd_com_section_ptr, it will be a synthesized value. */
159 int gdb_bfd_section_index (bfd *abfd, asection *section);
162 /* Like bfd_count_sections, but include any possible global sections,
163 like bfd_com_section_ptr. */
165 int gdb_bfd_count_sections (bfd *abfd);
167 /* Return true if any section requires relocations, false
168 otherwise. */
170 int gdb_bfd_requires_relocations (bfd *abfd);
172 #endif /* GDB_BFD_H */